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I am pleased to report that the ECE Department has just compiled its Annual Report for the past academic year, Sept. 1, 2001 to Aug. 31, 2002, for the Dean and the Provost of the University. The report will be reformatted for publication to the external world in a few months. The report highlights the research activities of the faculty and students in the ECE department. Here are a few highlights for the ECE department for the 2001-02 year.
FACULTY
During 2001-2002 our 30 faculty members (16 Full Professors, 9 Associate Professors, and 5 Assistant Professors) included five Chaired Professors, three McCormick Professors of Teaching Excellence, six faculty who received NSF PYI/NYI/CAREER Awards, seven IEEE Fellows, one ACM Fellow, one APS Fellow, and two OSA Fellows. Two of our emeritus faculty members are in the National Academy of Engineering.
RESEARCH FUNDING
Our 30 faculty members had a total research funding expediture of $6.4 million during 2001-02. This translates to a research expenditure of $210,000 per faculty member.
PUBLICATIONS
During 2001-02, our faculty and students wrote two books, nine book chapters, 89 journal papers, and 98 conference papers.
STUDENTS
During 2001-2002, we had 293 undergraduate students which included 146 in electrical engineering and 147 in computer engineering. The department also had 123 graduate students (M.S. and Ph.D.)
DEGREES GRANTED
During 2001-02, the ECE department granted 73 B.S., 32 M.S., 27 Professional Masters, and 22 Ph.D. degrees.
I wish to thank all the staff of the ECE department for generating the data for this report. Special thanks go to Deneen Bryce for compiling the report. A detailed report for the external world will be published on the web in a couple of months by Professor Allen Taflove, Director of Publicity, Alumni and Industry Relations.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
Center for Photonic Communication and Computing Seminar
DATE: Monday, November 18, 2002
TIME: 10:30-11:30 a.m.
PLACE: Tech Room L324
TITLE: "Superluminal Light Pulse Propagation, Causality and Quantum
Fluctuation"
SPEAKER: Dr. Lijun Wang, Research Scientist, NEC Research Institute,
Inc., Princeton, NJ
Computer Science Seminar
DATE: Wednesday, November 20, 2002
TIME: 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
PLACE: CS main classroom (381), 1890 Maple Avenue
TITLE: "Multidisciplinary Computing Research and Education - Why, What,
When, Where, Who"
SPEAKER: Jim Foley, Georgia Institute of Technology
Center for Quantum Devices Seminar
DATE: Thursday, November 21, 2002
TIME: 10:00 a.m.
PLACE: 4051 Cook
TITLE: Ferromagnetic Chalcopyrite Semiconductors
SPEAKER: Dr. John Ketterson, NU Department of Physics and Astronomy
Professors Katsaggelos and Pappas and graduate student Pesh Pahalawatta traveled to Waltham, MA, Nov. 6-8, 2002, to attend the DARPA PI meeting on "Sensor Information Technology." They presented a poster and gave a demonstration of their results and Prof. Katsaggelos gave an oral presentation of their research results.
Professor Prem Kumar traveled to Pasadena, CA, November 13-15, to attend QUMI workshop: NASA-DoD Workshop on Quantum Metrology & Imaging. It was a research-planning workshop. Dr. Kumar presented the paper, "Noiseless image amplification."
Professor Jorge Nocedal traveled to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, November 2-4, and presented a seminar at McMaster University entitled "The New Faces of Nonlinear Programming."
Professor Allen Taflove traveled to Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., on November 7. He participated in a three-person external review panel evaluating a proposed large-scale internal NRL research program in the area of advanced electromagnetic materials.
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .